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Currently Browsing: December, 1999

The Radio City Music Hall Orchestra voted unanimously on Nov. 12 to authorize Local 802 to call a strike if an agreement is not reached soon with Radio City Productions. The union and management were far apart on wage issues.

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Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, on strike since Sept. 25, have been working nonstop to raise public awareness about the issues involved and to rally support. The orchestra has been playing benefit concerts several times every week. To press

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Local 802’s new web site made its debut on Sept. 20 – and was an instant hit with members. In the next 10 days, 130 musicians logged on and filled out personal “profiles,” entitling them to use the members-only section

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“Be it resolved that the council of the city of New York mourns the death and celebrates the life of jazz legend Milt Jackson, who passed away on October 9, 1999.” This resolution, introduced by Councilmember Stanley Michels, was adopted

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On Nov. 11 at 1:30 a.m. a tentative agreement was reached between the AFM and the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc., and Buena Vista Theatrical Ventures, Inc. (Disney) on terms and conditions of a successor Pamphlet B Touring

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The sounds of hammering have ended, and plaster dust is no longer drifting through the fourth floor of the 802 building. The first phase of a reorganization of the union’s offices was completed shortly before this issue went to press.

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Agreement made and entered into this 12th day of October 1999 by and between Local 802, Associated Musicians of Greater New York (hereinafter called “union”), located at 322 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036, and B.V. Theatrical Ventures Inc.

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Guest Commentary
Mark Weisbrot
It’s being billed in advance as the “protest of the century.” A thousand non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and tens of thousands of people are expected to demonstrate their opposition to the World Trade Organization in Seattle, beginning on Nov. 29. How

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Judy West
EXTEND HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT New York State’s Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) – which provides hundreds of millions of dollars in special funding to reimburse hospitals and clinics that provide care to the uninsured, for worker retraining and for

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The Musicians’ Voice is an open forum for discussion about the state of union affairs. Please keep all letters to 500 words and send them to Allegro, c/o Local 802, 322 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036. BEREAVEMENT PAY

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RMA-NY is now hosting Film Music Network’s monthly meetings. These meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month in the Local 802 Club Room, from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. (The doors open at 6 p.m.) For more information

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Erwin L. Price
Local 802 member Al Gallodoro, one of the saxophone greats of all time, began his remarkable career in 1927, at the age of 14, playing in big-time vaudeville in the RKO Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans. One of three saxophone-playing

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Aurora Is Accepting Musicians' Applications
The Aurora is a supportive, shared housing residence sponsored by the Actors’ Fund of America and managed by Common Ground. It provides affordable housing for senior citizens (50 and older), working professionals and persons with AIDS. The Aurora features 24-hour

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Michael Spengler
Classical record labels large and small are reissuing works by conductors of the “Golden Era,” giving us timeless interpretations of such giants as Fritz Reiner, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Pierre Monteux and many others. One member of that generation who

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by Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, Oxford University Press, 1999, 718 pages, $49.95 hardcover.
Bill Crow
Praise be, the new encyclopedia is finally here! Feather’s original “Encyclopedia of Jazz” was published in 1955, and an updated version came out in 1960. Companion volumes – “The Encyclopedia Yearbooks of Jazz” and “The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the

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Sandra Antonini – Piano Eduardo Barrenechea – Bass Glenn B. Bell – Cocktail Drums John Bianculli – Drums/Vocalist Jimmy Cannin – Piano Martin Edwards – Saxophone Sid Gilbert – Bass Tom Hancock – Piano/Conductor Harry S. Hannaford – Saxophone Marcia

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Jackelyn Frost, CSW
Seasonal “cheer” has become synonymous with overdoing it – too much shopping, too much spending, too much eating and too much alcohol. Celebrations ringing in the new millennium are also expected to greatly increase alcohol consumption. So much so, in

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October 5, 1999 -- October 19, 1999
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1999 Meeting called to order at 2:00 p.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Landolfi, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Gale, Hafemeister, Rosen, Simon and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison. Legislative Director

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Bill Crow
Last fall I played a concert at the Center for Mature Living in Allendale, N.J., with the Saddle River Concert Band. When we arrived to set up in the center atrium, I unpacked my tuba near two old ladies who

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